COMPILED BY WILLIAM W. BROWN. THIRD EDITION. BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY BELA MARSH, No. 25 Cornhill. 1851. Press of Bazin & Chandler, No. 37 Cornhill. SONGS....

DEDICATED TO WILLIAM W. BROWN, And Sung by the Hutchinsons . BY ELIAS SMITH....

From Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine....

“It is asserted, on the authority of an American newspaper, that the daughter of Thomas Jefferson, late President of the United States, was sold at New Orleans for $1,000.”— Morning Chronicle....

Air —The Troubadour. This song was composed while George Latimer, the fugitive slave, was confined in Leverett Street Jail, Boston, expecting to be carried back to Virginia by James B. Gray, his claimant....

This song is said to be sung by Slaves, as they are chained in gangs, when parting from friends for the far-off South—children taken from parents, husbands from wives, and brothers from sisters....

“My child, we must soon part to meet no more this side of the grave. You have ever said that you would not die a slave; that you would be a freeman. Now try to get your liberty!”— W. W. Brown’s Narrative....

Written on the occasion of George Latimer’s imprisonment in Leverett street Jail, Boston....